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1 Sing for joy to God our strength;shout aloud to the God of Jacob!2 Begin the music, strike the timbrel,play the melodious harp and lyre.

3 Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon,and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;4 this is a decree for Israel,an ordinance of the God of Jacob.5 When God went out against Egypt,he established it as a statute for Joseph.

I heard an unknown voice say:

6 “I removed the burden from their shoulders;their hands were set free from the basket.7 In your distress you called and I rescued you,I answered you out of a thundercloud;I tested you at the waters of Meribah.[c]8 Hear me, my people, and I will warn you—if you would only listen to me, Israel!9 You shall have no foreign god among you;you shall not worship any god other than me.10 I am the Lord your God,who brought you up out of Egypt.Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.

11 “But my people would not listen to me;Israel would not submit to me.12 So I gave them over to their stubborn heartsto follow their own devices.

13 “If my people would only listen to me,if Israel would only follow my ways,14 how quickly I would subdue their enemiesand turn my hand against their foes!15 Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him,and their punishment would last forever.16 But you would be fed with the finest of wheat;with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

Psalm 82

A psalm of Asaph.

1 God presides in the great assembly;he renders judgment among the “gods”:

2 “How long will you[d] defend the unjustand show partiality to the wicked?[e]3 Defend the weak and the fatherless;uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.4 Rescue the weak and the needy;deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

5 “The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing.They walk about in darkness;all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

6 “I said, ‘You are “gods”;you are all sons of the Most High.’7 But you will die like mere mortals;you will fall like every other ruler.”

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

1 O God, do not remain silent;do not turn a deaf ear,do not stand aloof, O God.2 See how your enemies growl,how your foes rear their heads.3 With cunning they conspire against your people;they plot against those you cherish.4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation,so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”

5 With one mind they plot together;they form an alliance against you—6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,of Moab and the Hagrites,7 Byblos, Ammon and Amalek,Philistia, with the people of Tyre.8 Even Assyria has joined themto reinforce Lot’s descendants.[g]

9 Do to them as you did to Midian,as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,10 who perished at Endorand became like dung on the ground.11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,12 who said, “Let us take possessionof the pasturelands of God.”

13 Make them like tumbleweed, my God,like chaff before the wind.14 As fire consumes the forestor a flame sets the mountains ablaze,15 so pursue them with your tempestand terrify them with your storm.16 Cover their faces with shame,Lord,so that they will seek your name.

17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;may they perish in disgrace.18 Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord—that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.

19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble.21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

All Israel Will Be Saved

25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,26 and in this way[a] all Israel will be saved. As it is written:

“The deliverer will come from Zion;he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.27 And this is[b] my covenant with themwhen I take away their sins.”[c]

28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,29 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.30 Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,31 so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now[d] receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you.32 For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

Doxology

33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and[e] knowledge of God!How unsearchable his judgments,and his paths beyond tracing out!34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord?Or who has been his counselor?”[f]35 “Who has ever given to God,that God should repay them?”[g]36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.To him be the glory forever! Amen.

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